Quotes 2921 till 2940 of 3899.
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The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
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The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
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The man who has done his best has done everything.
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The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
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The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
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The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
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